Jan de Vos (historian)

(see also the San Andrés Accords) As a distinguished person in the region he entered the Consejo Consultivo (Consultative Council) of the EU/Chiapas development project Prodesis around 2004.

Among several indispensable works on the history of Chiapas, he wrote Fray Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada and The Battle of The Sumidero.

An excerpt from the introduction to The Peace of God and the King; The Conquest of the Lacandon Jungle, 1525–1821:"For Western Civilization, violent and oppressive by nature, the Indigenous cultures continue to be a nuisance which has to be eliminated.

Today, several South American countries keep exterminating in cold blood the last free indigenous tribes of the Amazon Rain Forest.

In other countries they are enclosed, for dubious philanthropic reasons, in reservations (sometimes territorial, sometimes subtly cultural), in which the indigenous people are condemned to live like museum pieces, without being able to participate freely in the life of the nation they belong to.